60 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MaRCH, 1917. 
to kill my countrymen.’ For having thus ‘resisted’ authority, he was 
imprisoned at Loos, to await deportation to Germany. On the following 
day he was found dead in his cell, and only after much supplication was his 
grandchild allowed to make the necessary funeral arrangements.” M. 
Fanyau was an enthusiastic Orchidist, and his collection filled several 
houses, a speciality being made of the Odontoglossum group. The 
collection was rich in choice blotched forms, which were well-grown by his 
able gardener, M. Cleverley, who was also very successful as a raiser, 
among his acquisitions being Odontonia Fanyauiana (M. vexillaria x Odm. 
Adrian), and O. Cleverleyana (M. vexillaria Leopoldii x Odm. Rolfez). 
We also recall Odontoglossum hellemense (crispum X harvengtense) as 
another attractive hybrid. There were also some choice albinos among the 
Cattleyas and Lelias. At the last Horticultural Exhibition held at Lille 
in June, 1914, M. Fanyau was awarded the Grand Prix d’Honour, a Gold 
Medal offered by the King of the Belgians, for his collection of Orchids and 
greenhouse plants. 
CYMBIDIUMS FROM BrisToL.—A series of beautiful Cymbidium flowers 
is sent from the collection of G. Hamilton-Smith, Esq., Northside, Leigh 
Woods, Bristol, by Mr. Coningsby. The batch of C. Sibyl (eburneum X 
Pauwelsii) mentioned at page 36, is represented by four beautiful forms, in 
which the characters of C. eburneum are prominent. One isa charming 
albino with a band of yellow on the front of the lip. A second is very 
similar, but has just a faint tinge of blush. A third is tinged with palest 
primrose, but has some obscure yellow blotches on the front of the lip, 
while in the fourth there is a tinge of both yellow and pink, the latter 
chiefly in the lip. Five forms of C. Alexanderi (Veitchii X insigne) show 
some of the range of variation in this fine hybrid. One is blush-white, 
with a crimson column and some yellow and rose on the front lobe of the 
lip. A second has more blush in the sepals, a paler column, and a few 
crimson dots near the front of the lip. A third is pale primrose, with a 
zone of crimson blotches in front of the lip, while in a fourth the blotches 
extend all over that organ, as in C. insigne. In the last the’ segments are 
exceptionally broad, and the grovnd colour rose, with a zone of crimson 
blotches all round the lip. The remaining flower is C. Corona (Lowianum 
X Schlegelii), a beautiful form, the sepals and petals lined and dotted with 
rose on a light yellow ground, the front lobe of the lip rich brownish 
crimson, margined with yellow, and the side lobes strongly banded with 
crimson. Mr. Coningsby remarks that this is the finest variety they have 
flowered yet. Cymbidiums are prime favourites with Mr. Hamilton-Smith, 
and the charming hybrids of C. insigne are rapidly bringing the genus to 
the front. 
